Improvement in card-holders



Y H, H. SNOW.

CARD-HOLDER. No.187,061. Paten-tedFeb.6,1'877.

AE QFFIGE.

HENRY H. SNOW, OF NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

lMPROVEMENT IN CARD-HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 187,061, dated February 6, 1877 application filed January 9, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY H. SNow, of New Haven, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Card-Holders 5 and 1 do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a perspective view, and in Fig. 2 a sectional side view, illustrating the method of applying the article.

This invention relates to an improvement for device in securing cards, tags, or labels to boxes, such as cigars, confectionery, or other boxes containing small articles, where prices, names, &;c., are required to be attached.

.In the usual method of attaching these cards or labels they are temporarily stuck among the articles, and merchants experience considerable difficulty from the displacement or interchange of the cards where prices are indicated, thus rendering it liable to attach the wrong price to the goods; and particularly is this difficulty experienced in showcases for cigars, where, in reaching over one box to another, the arm is liable to strike and displace intermediate cards.

The object of this invention is to overcome these difficulties; and it consists in a plate or clamp for attachment to the box, combined with a card -clasp hinged thereto, as more fully hereinafter described.

a, is the plate or base, usually provided with the spring-tongue I), cut from the plate, and bent so as to clasp over the edge of the box, as seen in Fig. 2; but this plate may be otherwise secured to the box. To the upper edge of the plate a the card-clasp c is hinged. This clasp a is best made from a piece of wire, coiled at the center into two or more convolutions. the ends turned to the right and left, and attached to the plate by bending the ears (1 around the ends, as seen in Fig. 1. The parts of the coil at thecenter form a clamp, between which the card is inserted, as seen in Fig. 2. Thus arranged, the card will be turned to or from the box, as indicated in' broken lines, Fig. 2, without danger of displacing the card from its proper box.

I claim The herein-described card-holder, consisting of the plate a and the clasp c, hinged to the plate a, substantially as and for the purpose described.

HENRY H. SNOW.

Witnesses:

JOHN E. EARLE, CLARA BROUGHTON. 

